| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Numen book series, 0169-8834 ; v. 112 |
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Studies in the history of religions ; 112.
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| Contents |
Ritual killing and sacrifice in the ancient Near East / Beate Pongratz-Leisten -- Human sacrifice in Greek culture / Gabriele Weiler -- The theological implications of child sacrifice in and beyond the biblical context in relation to Genesis 22 and Judges 11 / Michaela Bauks -- The first-born between sacrifice and redemption in the Hebrew Bible / Karin Finsterbusch -- "They burn their sons and daughters. That was no command of mine" (Jer 7:31) : child sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible and in the Deuteronomistic Jeremiah redaction / Armin Lange -- Molek : dead or alive? : the meaning and derivation of mlk and [mlkh (transliteration)] / Bennie H. Reynolds -- Jewish views of human sacrifice in the Hellenistic and Roman period / Katell Berthelot -- Gender difference and the rabbis : Bat Yiftah as human sacrifice / Tal Ilan -- Human sacrifice and Pauline christology / Peter Lampe -- The collective suicides in the persecutions of 1096 as sacrificial acts / Rainer Walz -- God's sacrifice of himself as a man : Anselm of Canterbury's Cur deus homo / Jasper Hopkins -- Kierkegaard's "fear and trembling," the sacrifice of Isaac, and the critique of Christendom / Christopher Roberts -- "Euthanasia" and experiments on human beings [part I : "euthanasia"] (1947) : with an introduction / Udo Benzenhöfer and Wilhelm Rimpau / Viktor von Weizsäcker -- Still ransoming the first-born sons? : Pidyon Habben and its survival in the Jewish tradition / Yaakov Ariel -- Slaughter and innocence : the rhetoric of sacrifice in contemporary arguments supporting the death penalty / Randall Styers |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Jesus Christ -- Crucifixion.
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| SUBJECT |
Jesus Christ fast |
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. New Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. New Testament fast |
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
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Bibel gnd |
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Child sacrifice in the Bible.
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Child sacrifice -- Judaism.
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Child sacrifice -- Christianity.
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Euthanasia.
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Capital punishment.
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Euthanasia
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Capital Punishment
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RELIGION -- Reference.
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Child sacrifice -- Judaism
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Child sacrifice -- Christianity
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Capital punishment
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Child sacrifice in the Bible
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Crucifixion of Jesus Christ
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Euthanasia
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Christentum
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Judentum
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Menschenopfer
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Rezeption
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Mensenoffers.
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Jodendom.
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Christendom.
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Griechenland Altertum
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Römisches Reich
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Alter Orient
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Chapel Hill <NC, 2002>
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Finsterbusch, Karin.
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Lange, Armin, 1961-
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Römheld, Diethard.
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| ISBN |
9789047409403 |
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904740940X |
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